Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
Jay Smooth
@jsmooth.bsky.social
I be the personal computer information on rap he/him
Looking the through the whole trove of Epstein emails, beyond the most newsworthy bits there's also lots of interesting (i.e. repulsive) insights into how these super-elites move and think.
"I can't believe people are still talking about that guy who just passed out over there. I like guys who don't pass out. I've never passed out. Everyone will tell you this. So what were we talking about? Oh yeah magnets. Did you know magnets can't get wet."
guys I’m sorry but have you looked through Getty images for yesterday 💀
I think it’s worth being explicit about what’s going on with the Zohran admissions stuff - this is a bad faith attack designed to try to drive the older Black voters that made up Cuomo’s base in the primary and who vote party line in the general to support Eric Adams to keep Mamdani out of City Hall
This implies that if Mamdani had simply refused to comment, the NYT would not have deemed the piece newsworthy. I'll leave it to you to decide whether that is plausible. 🤷🏻♀️
NYTimes Communications@nytimespr.bsky.social · last yr.
Paying tribute to Sly on the Twitch stream if you're around <3 about to dig into some rare footage from his set at the Harlem Cultural Festival twitch.tv/jsmooth995
Andrew Cuomo knows: moving to New York City can be hard. But voting here shouldn’t be. 🏠 Already registered here? Update your address by June 9th 🧳 New or never registered? You must register by June 14th Head to zohranfornyc.com/vote. We’ve got an affordable city to win.
If that one part of "Sinners" gave you an appetite for some 90's hip-hop era Vampire lore, we're about to watch a little bit of 1990's Def By Temptation over on twitch :) twitch.tv/jsmooth995
All obvious heinous things aside, this is a reminder that—despite lies from republicans—undocumented people pay taxes. and now their contributions are being used against them.
Jacob Bogage@jacobbogage.bsky.social · last yr.🚨 SCOOP 🚨 DHS is asking IRS to locate **7 MILLION** suspected undocumented immigrants using confidential tax records. It’s a massive escalation by DHS to use the tax system for mass deportation. IRS officials are aghast, say it’s likely illegal.
The Senate seat Schumer holds has only had 3 people in it over the last 70 years
Under no circumstances will I "hand it to" Adam 16, but assuming he's the one who pitched this story, this is the wildest bamboozlement of a writer since that "fake grunge slang" piece in 1992
Will Sommer@willsommer.bsky.social · 2y agoAs Democrats look for a liberal Joe Rogan, massively popular hip-hop YouTuber @adam22ster.bsky.social is ready to step up. But for now, elected Dems have spurned him. Is it the Lisa Simpson tattoo on his face? I investigate for @thebulwark.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/hip-hop-lo...
OK, I wrote my “who’s going to enforce it?” piece. It’s a lengthy read, trying to respond to a lot of questions I’ve gotten over the past three weeks, but it’s about democracy so I decided it was worth it to lay out in depth, with examples, what I’ve been talking about here and elsewhere.
Don't let Donald Trump and Elon Musk talk us out of democracy
Trump and Musk are testing the limits, trying to sell America on being an authoritarian state — but they can’t do it unless we allow them to do so.
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If they had done an SNL sketch last summer where Diana Ross winds up giving Kendrick the Song of the Year Grammy for Not Like Us i would've said "ok that's a bit much"
This is getting attention for what's in the headline, understandably, but the second screenshot feels equally notable--and galling--because 1. Oh NOW you're ready to admit this? 2. Admitting strategic failure on Gaza, without reckoning with yall's catastrophic *moral* failing, is still nasty work
On "payola pardons" and why Snoop doubled down on riding with Trump www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCgd...
Snoop Just Doubled Down On Riding For Trump (And Here's Why)
YouTube video by Jay Smooth
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Every year I share this @jsmooth.bsky.social video about 10 other things MLK said and not the usual quotes that are shared each year. youtu.be/AIFTNmOOLmk?...
Ten OTHER Things Martin Luther King Said
YouTube video by Jay Smooth
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We're on live for the next few, catching up on some news and celebrating some LA music and culture <3 twitch.tv/jsmooth995
We're live on Twitch about to get into some film studies with perhaps the preeminent classic of 70s anti-racist cinema, 1972's "The Thing With Two Heads" twitch.tv/jsmooth995
We're on twitch for the next few getting into some vintage Black sitcom Xmas episodes twitch.tv/jsmooth995
I pray one day the world will be ready for this young prophet's wisdom
open mike eagle@mike-eagle.bsky.social · 2y agoim suspicious of people that are very concerned about people saying they feel very bad about things that are obviously bad. typically folks that are concerned about people saying things are bad are not planning to do anything to address the foundational badness.
We're about to go live at twitch.tv/jsmooth995, catching up on some news and watching the second hour of Nikki Giovanni's classic rap session with James Baldwin 🙏
I haven't been paying much attention to the whole drones thing, been basically assuming there's nothing to it. But this latest one...I'm still a skeptic but how do you explain this? Is it just some really good AI?
We're about to do a watch party for Michael Moore's "Sicko" on the twitch stream, twitch.tv/jsmooth995 7PM EST
Forever one of my favorite Nikki Giovanni clips, calling out Bill Cosby back in 2007 ❤️
When Nikki Giovanni CALLED OUT Bill Cosby (2007)
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